A 30-year-old farmer from Olpad taluka of Surat district committed suicide in his farm apparently after the crop failure,police said on Wednesday.

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A 30-year-old farmer from Olpad taluka of Surat district committed suicide in his farm apparently after the crop failure,police said on Wednesday.

The farmer,identified as Bharat Patel,had hung himself with a rope in his farm in Sarol village on Tuesday. The body was spotted by a farm labourer who later informed to the villagers about the incident.

Olpad police took statements of the family members and started an investigation.

Victims father Mohan Patel in his statements before police said his son had taken loan from a local cooperative society for farming and was growing paddy crops. Due to the breakage in the Kakrapar division water canal,the irrigation water was not supplied to the agricultural field as a result of which there was crop failure. He was under tension since the last few days and also stopped talking to family members too.

My request to the government is to give a compensation amount to us,so that we can repay the loan amount. I also request to the farmers not to take such a drastic step life like my son did, he further said.